Einladung zum nächsten Kolloquium: Friday 30 June at 11h30 Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik Schützenmattstrasse 14, 3012 Bern Seminar Room 107 Speaker: Prof. Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada Title: Visual Detection of Design Anomalies and Evolution phenomena in OO Programs Abstract: Design anomalies introduced in early stages of software development or during its evolution are frequent causes of low maintainability, high complexity, and possibly faulty behaviors. Detecting and correcting these anomalies have an important impact on the quality of software, and particularly on its evolvability. In this presentation, we describe a semi-automatic technique for anomaly detection based on visualization of large-scale software programs. Our visualization framework VERSO combines human visual system capabilities with composition of visual filters, and animation to detect a large spectrum of design anomalies and evolution phenomena. Bio: Houari A. Sahraoui is associate professor at the department of computer science and operations research (GEODES, software engineering group) of University of Montreal. His research interests include the application of artificial intelligence techniques to software engineering, object-oriented metrics, software quality, software visualization, and software reverse- and re-engineering. He has published more than 80 papers in conferences, workshops, and journals and edited two books. He served as steering, program, and organization committee member in several major conferences (ECOOP, ASE, METRICS, ICSM...) and as member of the editorial boards of two journals. He was the general chair of the IEEE Automated Software Engineering Conference in 2003. URL: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/index_eng.html Freundliche Grüsse Sabine Gerber Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik Neubrückstr. 10, 3012 Bern http://www.iam.unibe.ch Sekr. CGG / Prüfungssekretariat, Sabine Gerber Tel. 031 631 49 14 / Fax 031 631 39 65 E-Mail: gerber(a)iam.unibe.ch